Shanghai Astronomy Museum wins TEA Thea award – World

Shanghai Astronomy Museum has been awarded the twenty ninth Thea Awards for Excellent Achievements on Nov 15 on the Worldwide Affiliation of Amusement Parks and Associations (IAAPA) in Orlando, the US.

Introduced by the Themed Leisure Affiliation, it’s the first Chinese language museum in addition to the primary science and know-how museum to win this award, and one of many 13 award-winning tasks on the earth.

Different winners embody sights comparable to Chasseurs de Tornades of Futuroscope in France, theme parks like Common Studios Beijing and immersive stay experiences like Particle Ink: Velocity of Darkish in Las Vegas.

The ceremony of the twenty ninth Thea Awards for Excellent Achievements might be held in Anaheim, United States on April 15, 2023.

“The winners of the earlier Thea Awards for Excellent Achievements are all trade leaders rising from a whole bunch of tasks all over the world, comparable to Disney Resort, Legoland, London Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Pure Historical past Museum of Los Angeles County,” mentioned Xin Ge, deputy curator of Shanghai Science & Expertise Museum.

“The distinction awarded by the jury to the Shanghai Astronomy Museum is predicated on the lively exploration of the museum within the discipline of displaying astronomical science themes and viewers expertise, and it has achieved excellent achievements and broad affect with the joint efforts of the museum”s constructors, specialists and different individuals,” Xin added.

Based on Xin, TEA is an authoritative group within the world theme leisure trade. The Thea Awards created by TEA in 1994 is named the “Oscars” of the worldwide theme leisure trade.

Because the department of the Shanghai Science & Expertise Museum, Shanghai Astronomy Museum was opened to the general public in July 2021, making it the most important planetarium on the earth.

Along with the astonishing exhibition areas, the museum is provided with research-class telescopes, an 8K dome theater and the world’s most superior optical planetarium. It has acquired almost 800,000 guests thus far.